Wednesday, 16 March 2016

14 March 2016 – Javea Port to Denia Tower

Arrived
in Javea in the rain, but fortunately it stopped before 10am.There was some discussion, particularly
after last Monday being so wet, but we all decided to do the walk and hope for
the best.

We reached the top in record time, it was too cold to hang about much

We often have a water stop at this point, but not today

We also missed out our banana stop at the picnic site, again because of
the fast pace we arrived there too early.But we did take a break when we reached the abandoned Garda Civil
barracks

It’s
only a few weeks since we did this walk as a recce with David and Rosemary, and
I was interested to see whether Pat took the same route.She did, and Jan was able to add another
stone to the cairn.Pat also had
similar problems finding the correct route.Fortunately after the fire it is easy to determine the direction you
want, even if you can’t find the actual path.

We soon reached the Denia Tower, which we have seen a lot of over the
past month

The
weather was starting to improve, and even a little sun shine.Though the burnt trees made it look quite
bleak.

We
normally have our picnic at the tower, but we arrived there about 12.30am,
which Pat felt was too early for lunch.

It was too cold to stop for long, just a short stop to admire the
scenery

Then
we set off back at a brisk pace, in order to reach the Javea Windmills in time
for lunch.

Fortunately the sky cleared, and the sun added some warmth

We
had lunch at the new (to us) picnic site, which we discovered on our Thursday
walk last week.It was out of the wind,
and quite comfortable.Nice to have
both a table and somewhere to sit.

Once more the clouds arrived, and it was too uncomfortable to sit for
long

We
did a small detour to admire the main collection of windmills.The picnic site is handy, but the view from
the main site is much better.

We
returned to Javea along the same track.Now that the area is clear of trees you can see most of the winding
track ahead, and we could see a large group of walkers well ahead of us.

We
caught them up just as we reached the cars.They were a group from the UK, on a Saga Walking holiday.We were impressed that they had tackled this
walk, which can be quite difficult in parts.

21 March 2016

Next
Monday meet at Tarbena at 10am.Peter
will lead the longer of the two walks he does from there.